ADVANCED
LINEAR
DEVICES, INC.
ALD521D
24 BIT SERIAL INTERFACE DIGITAL CONTROLLER
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
APPLICATIONS
• Operate in conjunction with ALD500/ALD500R
Precision analog signal processors
• Low cost, simple functionality
• High accuracy DC voltage measurement functions
• Portable battery operated instruments
• PC-based software control or stand-alone operation (without
other processors or PC)
• Serial digital output interface to other microprocessors or
microcontrollers
• PC parallel printer port interface standard
• Support resolution up to 23 binary bits + sign
polarity bit
• Easy to use to acquire up to 23 bit linearity
and noise performance
• Integration time can be set by the user
• Easy user evaluation and setting of
conversion parameters
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The ALD521D is a digital controller designed to interface to the ALD500
or ALD500R integrating dual slope analog processors as a chip set for
building a precision analog-to-digital converter. With the ALD521D and
ALD500R, together with a few external capacitors and resistors, a
precision Analog to Digital converter with auto zero and auto-polarity
can be implemented.
• Low power dissipation - 4 mA typical
including crystal oscillator
• On-chip Crystal Oscillator Circuit
• Two way asynchronous handshake data
transfer
• Conversion speed versus resolution trade-off
• Power down (sleep mode) control input to
power down to 2 µA
The ALD521D can operate in either a stand-alone mode or in an
external microprocessor control mode. In the stand-alone mode, the
ALD521D can either making continuous measurements or a single
measurement. Under external microprocessor control, the ALD521D
can directly interact with a PC under PC software control via a standard
parallelprinterport withnoothercomponents,oritcanalsocommunicate
with other microcontrollers serially.
• Chip Select control input
• High impedance DV, DOUT and SCLK
when chip not selected
• Single 3 V to 5 V power supply
The ALD500/ALD500R analog processors consist of on-chip digital
control circuitry to accept control inputs, integrating buffer amplifiers,
analogswitches,andvoltagecomparators. Itfunctionsinfouroperating
modes, or phases, namely auto zero, integrate, deintegrate, and
integrator zero phases. At the end of a conversion, the comparator
output goes from high to low when the integrator crosses zero during
deintegration. ALD500 analog processors also provide direct logic
interface to CMOS logic families.
PIN CONFIGURATION
ALD521D
1
2
3
4
5
18
17
16
S
S
1
2
S
DV
CS
D
3
C
OUT
15
14
13
12
11
10
PWRUP
OUT
ORDERING INFORMATION
Operating Temperature Range *
+
V
DGND
XTAL
6
7
C
S
OUT
0°C to +70°C
0°C to +70°C
XTAL
B
IN
OUT
CLK
18-Pin
18-Pin
8
9
C
S
A
Plastic Pin
Package
Small Outline
Package (SOIC)
N/C
PD, SD PACKAGE
ALD521DPD
ALD521DSD
* Note: N/C - No Conncection
* Contact factory for industrial temperature range
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